Database and Information Systems Group: Research Topics

• Active Rules and Query Workflows:
  The MARS (Modular Active Rules for the Semantic Web) Infrastructure Framework (2004-...)
• Information Integration from the Web (1997-...)
• The geographic database MONDIAL (in F-Logic, Datalog, Oracle, XML and RDF/OWL format) built by information extraction and integration from the Web (1998-2000, completed and ongoing as a case-study for XML and RDF).

Completed Projects

• 2004-2008:
  EU FP6 NoE "REWERSE" (Reasoning on the Web with Rules and Semantics):
  • SWAN (Semantic Web Active Node) Architecture (2004-2009)
  • DL+Florid: Hybrid Reasoning with DL and F-Logic (2006-2008).
  • OWLQ: A language and ontology for stating conjunctive queries against OWL data (2007-2008).
• LinXIS (Linked XML Information Sources): Database aspects of linked XML instances (2001-2008; funded by DFG 2004-2006).
• LoPiX (Logic Programming in XML): An implementation of the declarative XML data manipulation language XPathLog (2000-2003), used for XML data integration.
• Referential Integrity in Databases (1996-2004)
• Development of an information system at the health protection department at Volkswagenwerk Kassel/Baunatal (2005-2009).